There were twelve of them on the 2017 list in total, including Michael Buckley, who works at Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Capital, and Anthony Massaro, who works at Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management.

Abuwala, a portfolio manager at Caxton Associates, works with former Joshua Berkowitz, who made his name as a trader working with George Soros. Abuwala started in the hedge fund business at Berkowitz’s Woodbine Capital, and moved to Caxton with Berkowitz and other former Woodbine colleagues. He graduated with a degree in finance and international business from NYU and has worked at Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and BlackRock, according to his Linkedin profile.

Bobbili is an investment analyst at Abrams Capital, a Boston-based investment firm founded by David Abrams. According to Forbes, he manages “one of Wall Street’s most concentrated and successful portfiolios.” He is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Law School and holds a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Friedman is a portfolio manager at CQS, a London-based asset management firm, focused on investing in high-yield and distressed securities. According to his Linkedin profile, he was previously a high-yield trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Maheshwari is a research analyst in the quantitative arm of hedge fund manager Steven Cohen’s Point 72 Capital Management, according to Forbes. Previously, he was vice-president at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Massaro is a partner at Bill Ackman’s hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management where he, according to Forbes, is involved in the firm’s investments in Mondelez and Chipotle. According to his Linkedin profile, Massaro previously had a two-year stint with the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics, finance and accounting from the University of Pennsylvania.

Nomitch works as a stock trader at Viking Global Investors specializing in energy names, according to Forbes. Previously, he worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs’ natural resources division. He is a double major in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth College, and graduated with “
nine academic citations: five in economics, two in mathematics and one each in computer science and chemistry.”
Rasmussen is the founder of Verdad Fund Advisers, a fund that aims to deliver private equity-style returns in the public market. He is the author of “American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt” and holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a MBA from Stanford. He previously worked at Bain Capital and Bridgewater Associates.

Domelen is a partner at Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management where he oversees technology investments “including billion dollar stakes in Amazon and Priceline,” according to Forbes. He was previously “trained by Mary Meeker while a research analyst at Morgan Stanley,” according to Forbes, and he lists Morgan Stanley’s famous Mobile Internet Report as a publication on his LinkedIn profile. He is a Duke University graduate in economics.